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Celebrity Pictures Painting

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was the leading figure in American cultural life of the nineteenth century. Born in Portland, Maine in 1807, he became a national literary figure by the 1850s, and famous personalities in the world at his death in … Continue reading

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Sweet mortality

A resurrection in contemporary Australian art of an obsession with the afterlife reveals more than a fascination for morbidity. PRUE GIBSON takes a walk on the dark side. The gentlefolk of the 19th century were obsessed with the afterlife. In … Continue reading

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